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COM used to be treated as a legacy technology by Microsoft, but it is pretty central now.
by kryptiskt 9y ago
COM used to be treated as a legacy technology by Microsoft, but it is pretty central now.
- sebazzz 9y agoTrue, WinRT is built on COM.
- pjmlp 9y agoAs extra info, COM became central after Longhorn's failure. Many of the .NET APIs became COM based ones on Vista, with plain C Win32 ones being less and less common until we got WinRT, as the sibling comment points out. Interesting enough WinRT shares many ideas with the genesis of .NET, before they decided to go the CLR route.